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Daily Ohio State journal (Columbus, Ohio : 1870), 1885-02-27

Daily Ohio State journal (Columbus, Ohio : 1870), 1885-02-27 page 1

Mmln E WW v ESTABLISHED 1811. VOL. XLVI. NO. 50. COLUMBUS, FRIDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 27, 1885. TWENTY-FOUR YEAR FAST, AND A LONG TIME BETWEEN DRINKS. The Hugrj Hi Thirsty Democrats Will Therefor. Trip th. Festive Brogan at the Inaugural How th. Work la Profi easing; A Batch of W.w. Special to the Ohio State Journal. . Wabhikgtos, Feb. 20. There were very-lively scenes at the new pension building today. Workmen were so thick making ready for the inaugural ball that one could scarcely trace them. It is intended that the room shall be finally completed by Saturday night. All the decorations will be finished then, except the placing of the pot plants, which will not be done until the 3d of March. . Members of the executive committee are personally superintending the work. When the State Jocbxal correspondent visited the ball-room this afternoon there were decorators, gas-fitters, carpenters and artisans of various kinds, engaged in their different occupations. The sharp tap of the hammer and shouts of the foreman woke the echr.es of the great building,' Gunsell, the decorator, had most of his material in hand, and much of the work of draping. The ceiling bad .been .festooned from the roof, , and shields and decorations, adorning the pillars on the lower floor, bad been placed in position. Huge columns in the center of the building had been swathed in white muslin and the work of twining garlands of . smilax about them commenced. Gunsell said he did not want to bring the rich material to be used in hanging and draping the hall into the building until the last moment. The spacious rooms opening into the hall on the lower floor have all been assigned to different purposes, one to the President, one to the diplomatic corps, one fitted up with telegraph instruments for the press, another to the reception committee and another to the general committee. Other rooms will be used as cloak-rooms, supper-rooms and wine-rooms. Provision for the comfort of the guests will be most complete. The cloak-rooms are commodious. Each attendant will have charge of 120 boxes, which have been designated according to a system of letters and numbers. These are also commodious. The toilet and retiring-rooms and kitchen will be in a separate frame building outside the main building, and service between the kitchen and dining-rooms will be through windows. The supper-rooms will accommodate 700 people at a time, or it is estimated 1400 people an hour. It is proposed to place a fire company in the gallery, at each end of the hall, and besides there will be a force of police in the building. The chief of police and chief of the 'fire department will have a room, and electric bells will be put in, so that they can com- . manicate at once with their men, if there is occasion. The walls of the series of rooms fitted up for the President's reception are now being painted and decorated. Five thousand dollars worth of furniture will be placed in these rooms. ' The committee on public comfort is very busy answering letters, telegrams and verbal inquiries. It announces that there is plenty of room yet at reasonable prices. Extra tracks are being hud within the eitv bv the railroad companies to accommodate the inaugural business. These are but temporary, of course, and are laid upon the streets by special permission. The trains will run between here and Bal timore on two roads every twenty minutes. Very extensive preparations were begun today for fireworks on the mgnc oi March 4. They will be placed on the monument grounds. The contractors having the fireworks in charge propose to paint the sky red. They have brought a large quantity of material which will be manufactured on the ground. One set piece will be as large as the front of the new pension building. There will be a fiery representa- uon oi we uapitoi t Dy loo leet. One piece will be a portrait of Jefferson 60 feet hi eh. and a view of Niagara, 65 by 300 feet, will be . given. The objeet of doing so much of the work here is to avoid the expense of bringing several car loads of scaffolding and frames from New York. The contractors promise the nnest pyrotechnic display ever seen in this country. . Portal sod Personal. David Rockey has been designated as act ing postmaster at Chatfield, O., after March 2. Buckeye College and Redfield will be omitted from the star mail service on the route from Jew Lexington, and the route will begin at Rehoboth. Miss Ea telle Cleveland of Wilmington. O.. a cousin of the President-elect, has been in vited to the White-house to assist in the in auguration day festivities. - W. A. Hardesty of Columbus is at Will- arus. John Gardner of Norwalk, and 8. E. Phin- , ney and W. B. Raymond and wife of Akron are at tne xuggs. Western Associated Press Dispatches. To Get Another Chance at the Treaty. WAf HiKGToir, Feb. 26. Negotiations have been in progress between the United States and Spain for the extention until May 18, 1876, of the time within which the Spanish reciprocity treaty may be ratified by the United States Senate and put into effect by congressional legislation. The present limitation of the period is six months from No vember 18, 1881, the date of the treaty's signature. It is understood the negotiations were conducted by Ministers Foster and Valeria of this city, and are practically con- . cinoea witn tne enect a Dove indicated. Increasing the Naval BUI. Washihgtox, Feb. 26. The Senate com mittee on appropriations increased the naval appropriation bill as sent from the House by $2,364,600. The principal items of increase are an appropriation of $2,000,000 for continuing work on the double-turreted moni tors. S3OO.O0O for the armament of the new cruisers and gunboats, $115,000 for the con-- struction of steel cruisers and gunboats, and $au,uuu ior tne general maintenance ot tne oureau oi yards and uocks. Exports and Imports. ' Washikgtos, Feb. 26. The excess of values of exports over imports of merchandise for the month of January, $38,343,960; twelve months ended January 31, 1885, $138,756,652. The total values of imports of merchandise lor twelve months ended January 31, 1885, $617,166,928. Total value of exports of merchandise for twelve months ended Janu ary 31, 1885, $755,923,680. Of So Possible Use to Republicans. Washington, Feb. 26. The civil service examinations will be held in the Western and Northwestern states as follows: Cleveland March 18, Detroit March 20, Kansas City March 24, St. Paul March 24, Minneapolis March 25, Madison, Wis., March 27. At all these examinations applicants for de partmental service in Washington will te examined. Confirmod. Washisgtox, Feb. 26. The following nominations were confirmed by the Senate today: Registers of land offices Charles T. " Lewiston, I. T. : Mark 8. Blunt, Pueblo, Col. ; Theodore F. Singiser, receiver of public moneys at Mitchell, Dak. Postmasters Oscar B. Knickerbocker, Kane, 111.; Dayton naie, tjoiumDus, miss. hat's the Way to Get am Appropriation., Washington, Feb. 26. A very handsome dinner was given at Welcker's hotel tonight by Major E. A. Burke, of the New Orleans Times-Democrat, to his fellow-journalists in Washington. Nearly all the Washington correspondents and prominent local newspa per men were among tne guests. A Statu, to Lafayette. Washington, Feb. 26. Senator Sherman reported to the Senate today an amendment to the sundry civil bill, which provides for the' erection in the District of Columbia of a statue to the memory of General Lafayette to cost fou.uuu. So Sorry. Washington, Feb. 26. Members of the - House who signed the communication sent rresident-clect Cleveland relative to the suspension of silver coinage, decline to give his answer to the public in anticipation of his inaugural address. HIS SECOND FLIGHT. An Ex-Mayor of Adrian, Mich., Leaves Washington Territory Under m Cloud. Poet TowNsssn, W. T., Feb. 26. The following are the particulars relating to the flight of ex-Mayor Thomas Nevins: About a year ago he came here from Tacoma, W. T., and engaged in practicing law under the name of John B. Voorhis, and soon became associated with A. L. Teele, The firm of Teele & Voorhis flour- iahed. On Teele's election as justice of the peace last November the firm dissolved. Voorhis began to practice on his own account. After his disappearance on Saturday it transpired that he was the ab- i - t i. - Bccnaing mayor oi Aurutu, uiicn., wiiu, with a portion of the city council, issued city bonds for water-works, and sold the bonds to tne extent oi ou,-000. This resulted in those who were responsible being found guilty for exceeding their official authority. . Voorhis claimed that he left to screen others, assuming the responsibility himself. He was single, while the others were married. He also stated that he received no money for the bonds, it being deposited in a Hew York Dank in trust for the city of Adrian. The bonds were subsequently cancelled. Adrian lost nothing. When he arrived here he was recog nized by persons who knew him in Michigan, and he convinced them that he came West with a desire to redeem mmseii, so they permitted the matter to rest until his flight became known. His friends here claim that his indebtedness, the amount of which is not known, will be paid in full. ' DEATH'SPALETLAG Waves Over the Ramparts of tho Illinois Senatorial Struggle. Springfield, In,., Feb. 26. Judge Rob ert Logan of Whiteside dropped dead at the head of the House stairs as he was on his way to the chamber. The elevator was not running and he attempted to walk up the long stairway. Logan has been ailing all session with heart disease and could not stand excitement of any kind. When he dropped on the House floor opposite the main entrance to the chamber he was picked np by friends and carried into the anteroom and doctors called. Five minutes later he was pronounced dead. In the House this morning it was re solved that a committee of two senators and three representatives, with the door keeper of the House, attend the funeral of Logan. it was resolved that members ot the House accompany the remains to the train in a body. Also resolved that a committee of five be appointed to draft suitable resolutions relative to the death of Logan. In the senate the resolutions of the House were concurred in and adjourned. la joint session it was arranged that no vote would be taken for United States senator before next Tuesday. lhe greatest excitement prevailed in the House and Senate, and profound regret was expressed on all sides. The body will be taken home to Morrison to night or tomorrow. Chicago, Feb. 26. The Times will to morrow publish interviews with Hon. M. W. Fuller, Judge W. O. Goudy and Hon. S. Corning Judd, leading Democratic lawyers of this state, upon the effect which the death of .Representative Logan will have upon the senatorial deadlock at Springfield. They agree in saying it does not change the status of affairs. That the law requires a majority of all the members of both houses elected to be present and voting, in order to constitute a quorum.. The lull roster of the joint assembly is 204, and the presence of 103 is necessary to make it a legal bod v for the choice of senator. With this number present and voting, a majority of the votes cast, it is claimed, will elect. There are 102 Democratic members of the joint assembly, and since the death of Representative Logan, 101 Republican members, so that either party to secure a constitutional quorum must have the assistance of 'one or more members of the opposite party. . Three weeks -or - more will elapse before Representative Logan's place can be filled by a special election. mis aiternoon arrangements were made by the committee having charge of the body of Logan to convey it to the depot lor transportation to his home in Morrison tonight at 12 o'clock. They will be conveyed to the depot, followed b Logan 8 son and a large number of members and citizens generally. The committee appointed to accompany the body to Aiomson were senators Snyder and Ben, Messrs. Johnson, In galls and McMillan. By the death of Logan the House and Senate jointly stands. Democrats 1AO nMnillni. fit.Wa. m n A 17.1.00 Independent Democrats, Republicans 101. in order to elect a Senator, 103 constitutes a quorum, consequently if the Republicans refuse to vote as they now propose, an election of a senator will not take place until after the successor to Logan is elected. It was thought that by the death of Logan 102 would constitute a quorum, but it is understood here by leaders on both sides that such is net the case. Governor Oglesby this afternoon signed an order calling for the election of a representative in White side conntv, in place of Logan, deceased. to take place March 21. There will be no business done in either House or Senate, aside from taking a formal ballot for sen ator, until Tuesday. A large number of members are pairing and going home tonight. WOKS OF THE WABASH. Strike of Employes in the Shops at Spring field Similar Action Feared Elsewhere. Springfield, III., Feb. 26. Two hun dred employes of the Wabash railway agreed, late last night, to strike against the proposed reduction of 10 per cent, in wages. Telegrams were received from Fort Wayne, Moberly, Mo., Chicago and Decatur, announcing that the workmen in those cities would also strike. About half .of the employes of the Wabash shops went out on a strike this morning against . a reduction of wages from 5 to 10 per cent. The strikers are not at all organized. There are about 400 men employed in the works. The strik ers claim to nave received telegrams from Chicago, Moberly, Fort Wayne and Decatur informing them of the co-operation in the strike. The superintendent says he has no intimation of a strike at Fort Wayne-. Chicago, h eb. 26. The Wabash officials here state that they have no knowledge as yet ol any strike among tne employes ot the railway in this city. Notices, how ever, have been posted up in tne shops and in the yards here, and employes state they are awaiting the action which may be taken by those in the employ of the road at springheld. THE HIGH PRIEST OF COAL. OIL. Senator-Elect Payne Refers to tho Elect oral Commission and OtherPre-Adam-ite Matters. Clevilaxd, Feb. 26. Senator-elect Henry B. Payne was tendered a complimentary dinner by William Edwards to night, previous to his departure for Washington. All the prominent professional and business men in the city were pres ent. Mr. Payne, during his speech , spoke of the electoral commission, of which he was a member, and said that if the presidential controversy had not been settled by the commission, a civil war would have been the result, as 500,000 men were ready and willing to adjust the matter by arms. He was chairman of the committee that considered the bill that established the tribunal, and was offered political advancement if he would report adversely- on the bill. He refused because he believed the commission for the best interests of the country at large. Colonel John Hay suggested that Mr. Payne might succeed Cleveland in 1888. Mr. Payne in reply said that he had all the political honor he wanted, and his highest aim was to do his duty as a Senator and satisfy the state he represented. Nenl Mast Swing. Loi'isville, Feb. 26. William Neal, the last of the celebrated Ashland murderers, will be hung tomorrow at Grayson, Ky., the Governor having refused to interfere with the law. HOW HE CAUGHT A TARTAR HE DIDN'T THINTC IT WAS LOADED. Adoniram Jonadab Warner Asks Hon. w. Dudley Questions, and Ascertains Much That He. Didn't Want to Know That Alleged Pension Inquiry. Washington, Feb. 26. Colonel Dudley, ex-commissioner of pensions, was further examined by the Warner committee today. General Warner asked if the witness did not know that special examiners in Ohio, and especially in the close districts, were representing themselves as being in witness s employ, and that the pension claimants were cautioned to vote the Republican ticket if they wished to get their claims through. The witness knew nothing of the kind, and if he had known it would have denounced it. General Warner asked if the lists of claimants in the pension office were not furnished in order that political work might be carried on? Witness replied that that was the case. They were furnished by General Warner and others engaged in political work. "Myself and others had no access to the records," said the chairman. Mr. Hart You had a list of the pensioners in Ohio, General Warner I didn't say pensioners.Mr. Hart Any man in the S.'ate of Ohio or anywhere else can get it. Mr. Warner There is a difference between claimants and pensioners. Nobody has the right to it. Witness Well, nobody has been f sr-nisbed any such list from my office. I indignantly deny it, and I very much regret you should ask me sueh a question, for you ought to know me. You know it was not so because you wrote me a letter to that effect and I answered, telling you it was not so. Mr. Warner I think I had no such correspondence with yon. Witness Yon wrote me a letter, saying that the pension office was being used against you. Mr. Warner Can you produce the letter to that effect? I demand the letter I wrote you, the letter protesting against anv contracts. Witness No, sir; yon wrote me a letter against the pension office being used to your detriment, and I wrote yon that it was not so. Mr. Warner I wrote you respecting a special pension case. Witness I will ask you now, as I have a right to protect myself, if you did not ? Mr. Warner Bring the letter; bring the letter. Mr. Hart (laughingly) Answer the question, general. Mr. Warner I am not on the witness stand. Mr. Hart Well, you may be before this is over. I would like to ask yon some questions. Mr. Warner I would testify to somethings that would not please you. Mr. Hart I would be happy to have you go on just twenty minutes, general. Mr. Warner to witness How did you sign the letter addressed to me. Witness I think I signed it personally. I am net sure, but you have the letter and you can see. Mr. Warner I think you signei it ai commissioner. Witness I think I did not. Mr. Rogers questioned the witness as to the length of his absence from the office, to which Dudley replied, "Fifty-seven days." The witness further stated that he'had drawn his pay during the time of his absence. The rules which governed the subordinates about leaves were not applicable to the heads of the bureaus. He added he was not conscious of having neglected his duties, and that his attention to his official duties while in Washington consumed twelve hours a day, which was nearly double the time required of clerks. Mr. Rogers I want to ask you if yon think it had a very healthy influence on your bureau for it to go all over the country that he had quitted his post and gone into the country and stayed the length of time you state, looking after his party's political interests ? Witness You ask for my opinion ? Mr. Rogers Yes, sir. Witness In my judgment it Bhonld have no deleterious influence npon the office unless it were understood I was acting as commissioner at the same time. Mr. Rogers called witness's attention to a circular issued by mm as commissioner of pensions, in which the clerks of his office are cautioned in strong terms against the misuse of their hour of duty. Mr. Rogers asked witness's opinion of the principle of the circular as applied to his own case. Witness thought he came within the exceptions noted in the circular. He had set the example, when on duty, of working not six and a half hours a day, but twelve Hours a day. Mr. Rogers Do you mean when you were absent ? A. No, sir ; in office. Q. I am asking with respect to your absence. A. I think I worked eighteen hours a day when I was absent. Mr. Rogers asked: Why, if you could take 57 days with pay, could you not take the whole 365 ? A. Well, that is a question in ethics I can not answer. Mr. Rogers Well, I can't either. Witness declared he thought it not detrimental to any man to be faithful to his party allegiance; that he would not abridge any man's right to influence results, so long as he did not neglect his duties, or consume time for which he was paid by the government. General Warner questioned witness -as to the reason why nine special examiners were sent into his (Warner's) district while onlj one was required in the neighboring district, and why the force of examiners in Ohio was increased from 60 to 101 just before election? Witness -replied if such was the case, and he did not know it was, the reason would be found in the necessities of the office. Witness was unable to state how many special examiners were Republicans and 'how many Democrats. He did not believe any one knew the politics of half the examiners. They had been appointed under the civil service rules. During the subsequent colloquy the fact was developed that one of the special examiners in Ohio was working for the re-election of Representative Le Fevre, a Democrat. FOREIGN NEWS. ENGLAND. London, Feb. 26. The army estimates for the year 18S6 are announced. They amount to 17,820,700. This sum includes the expenditures which the Soudan expedition necessitates. Lord Salisbury said, in submitting a motion of censure in the House today, that the government acted throughout as if they were unwilling to arrive at a decision until the very last moment. They always waited until an external pressure forced them to form some kind of decision. The result of these hastily conceived measures had been throughout deplorable. In the absence of any fixed policy the government had adopted an absurd plan of taking-advantage of the chivalry and self-devotion of one of the noblest spirits of the age, to accomplish by mere words and promises what they lacked the courage to accomplish by force of arms. The speaker then reviewed the events in Egypt from the .period of Arabi's rebellion to that of the present troubles in the Soudan. The government, he declared, knew General Gordon was in clanger, and although thev knew he was endaneered thev held back from sending him succor, thereby incurring the penalty of the present indelible disgrace. A dispatch from Tangier says the admiral commanding the United States steamer Lancaster, which arrived at that nort a few davs aeo to support a demand of the United States consul for the release ot two persons unjustly imprisoned, gave notice to the government of Morocco on the 21st inst. that twenty days would be granted within which the prisoners should be liberated and reparation given, and if within that time the demands were not acceded to, the admiral would denounce the Madrid convention of 1SS0 and refer the matter to the government at Washington for further action. A terrible explosion occurred tnis afternoon at the Royal school ot gunnery at Shoeburyness, while a number of artillery officers and scientists were testing a new patent fuse. Three men were killed outright and several fatally wounded. Among the latter were some of the most prominent officials of the government laboratory at Woolwich. A letter has been received at Korti from a nun taken prisoner when Khartoum fell into the hands of the Arabs and who is now kept in captivity in the Mahdi's camp at Omdurinan. She confirms the statement that 1 Mahdi's troops massacred the soldiers of the garrison and many peaceful citizens, and she states the the number of persons slaughtered to hjp fully 2000. fs' FKANCK. Paris, Feb. 26. The Chamber of Deputies has rejected the counter proposals of M. Germain to abolish the tax on unoccupied land and raise the necessary revenue by an increase of the duty upon alcoholic liquors. In accordance with the request of Prince Hohenlohe the German v ambassador to France, the government has order.-ed the expulsion of German Socialists concerned in the riot which occurred on the occasion of the funeral of Jules Valles, the well known socialistic journalist. ' , The text of the. new commercial treaty between France and Bremen is published. The contracting powers accord each other the "favored nation" treatment in all matters of commercial intercourse. The merchants, exempted from employing royal brokers for the transaction of business in the Burmese markets and Bur-mah is forbidden to maintain or create monopolies. The customs duties remain the same as they were, except that opium is liable to 30 per cent, increase, i Knubley, an English journalist, who" it is alleged concocted the reports of the Irish dynamite convention, said to have been held in this city on the 23d, has been arrested on the charge of having attempted to shoot the editor of La France, who accused him of having fabricated the story. The difficulty between the editor of La France and Mr. Inubley, growing out of an altercation that the recently published story of a dynamite convention was a canard, occurred at the office of La France. Knubley called and asked to see the editor who wrote the article, in which the belief was expressed that the whole account of the convention was a hoax. When the editor appeared there was a brief wrangle. Knubley then drew a revolver and threatened to shoot the editor, but the editor had his pistol out about as soon as Knubley. While the two men thus stood confronting each other bystanders interposed and prevented bloodshed. Knubley was arrested. He swore the dynamite convention was held, but declined to mention the locality. It is now alleged by those who declare that the recently reported congress of dynamiters in this city was a hoax, that the whole affair was concocted by the foreign police for the purpose of alarming England and inducing her to become a party to the proposed international extradition treaty against dynamiters. The Catholic missionary organ states that several hundred Catholics, residents of Yun-Nan,- have been massacred in obedience to secret orders from the Chinese viceroy. IRELAND. DcBLisr,, Feb. 26. United Ireland today, in commenting on the proposed visit of the Prince of Wales to Ireland, disclaims any gratuitous disrespect for the prince. "But," it says, "if the castle flunkies organize mock demonstrations of enthusiasm they may rest assured there will be counter displays, which will overshadow any demonstrations Earl Spencer may inaugurate. The Irish Times asserts that a threaten ing letter has been received at Marlborough house and at the Home office from professed Fenians, warning the officials that the visit of the Prince of AVales to Ireland will be attended with danger. At Abbeyfeale, a village-in Limerick county, eleven farmers were evicted to day for non-payment of rent. Many policemen were present and all attempts at disorder were prevented. RUSSIA. . St. Petersburg, Feb. 20. The Zeitung says tnat although tne Russian and Brit ish advances into the Afghan frontier zone will tend to complicate the situation, the hope is entertained in well informed quarters that the question will be brought to a satisfactory settlement. .England. the paper says, must be convinced that Kussia will not occupy Herat. It also is of the opinion that exclusive British oc cupation is not likely to be undertaken, ior tne reason tnat it will be too hazard ous. AUSTRALIA. Adelaide, Feb. 26. The colonists of South Australia are generally aggrieved at the answer made by Earl Derby to their communication, m which they offered to send troops to the Soudan, and fail to per ceive a satisfactory reason why a preference should have been shown the people of ew South Wales, whose offer of as sistance was accepted by the home gov ernment GERMANY. Berlin, Feb. 26. The Congo conference had a final sitting today. Bismarck presided. He announced that the African international ssscciation had signified ad hesion to the decisions of the conference. and the documents had been signed bv President Strauch. on behalf of the asso ciation. The delegates then signed the documents, fourteen in number, and the conference was declared closed. Foreign Notes. Advices from Durban, South Africa, state that martial law has been proclaimed in Bechuan aland. Admiral Courbet will take a position near Shanghai, for the purpose of intercepting vessels with rice cargoes. The Governor of Caucasus has asked of the Russian government permission to send scientific expedition to Korassen. England bas refused to recognize the Trench declaration making rice contraband of war, if found on vessels bound to or from Chinese ports. The steamer Lydian Monarch, from Kingstown with troops for Suakim, about which rumor was current that she had foundered in St. George's channel, passed Ushant Sun day. The commander of the German corvette Stoch. at Hone Kong, has received by tele graph orders of considerable leDgth. It is believed the vessel will proceed to the Pa cific. In the House of Lords Thursday the Marauis of Salisbury moved a vote of cen sure on the government for its Egyptian policy. The motion was greeted with loud applause. Mail advices from Nassau, if., state a dvnamite scare is prevailing and the public buildings are being carefully guarded day and night, on account of advices received that a plot had been discovered in New York which threatened the colonial buildings. The friends of the missing Radford have started a subscription to provide funds for making a systematic search for him and bringing him back to Toronto. It is firmly believed that he is wandering about in a state of mental derangement caused by busi ness anxieties. In the Holland Parliament, Thursday, the prime minister stated that England and Germany had recognized the boundaries of Dutch territory in New Guinea as claimed by the Netherlands. In regard to Borneo, he said it was only necessary for Holland to fix the boundary in connection with the British company. A Satisfactory Appointment. Cheyenne. Wt Feb. 26. ihe news of the President's nomination of T. E. Warren as Governor of Wyoming territory is received with much satisfaction here. The appointment is considered an .excellent one and gives satisfaction to the entire territory. DOWN IN THE COAL MINES. THE SPECK OF WAR IN THE VALLEY. The Meeting; of Miners and Operators at Corning The Likely Outcome of It The Situation at Wells-ton and Other Points. Special to the Ohio State Journal. Corning, Feb. 25. The redaction of the price of mining, which has been anticipated ever since the break in the Hocking valley strike, and refused by the district convention when asked to accept by the state committee, has brought a crisis in the coal mining of the Sunday creek valley. The representatives of the Ohio Central Coal Company, W. P. Rend fc Co. and the Sunday Creek Coal Company, after holding a meeting in Columbus on Wednesday visited a mass meeting of miners hastily called together in the freight depot of this place. The operators having given notice of their coming, a special was sent from Jacksonville with 150 miners from No. 4 mine. These, with those present from Nos. 3, 5, 7 and 11, numbered about 500, assembled in the freight depot. At 8 p. m. they were called to order by James McLaughlin, secretary of this district. The president being absent James Nelson was elected as temporary chairman. J. T. Martin was the first speaker introduced. Mr. Martin stated that owing to the competition of the Hocking valley they were obliged to ask a reduction of 10 cents a ton, which, owing to some large contracts that had to be bid for the first of next month, must be accepted now, or the work would pass out of their hands and out of the valley. W. P. Rend, the next speaker introduced, was received with extended applause. Mr. Rend, although stating he did not come prepared to make a speech, gave a history of capital and labor from the time of Adam to the strike in the Hocking valley. Mr. Rend graphically pictured the servility of labor to capital, picking his illustrations from the slaves of the Romans to our own liveried servant and "coat-of-arms" aristocracy, closing by stating that necessity had driven him to take this step to deprive labor of itB legitimate earnings, in order to keep his mines running and give ' work to those "whom God knows need it." Reference was made to the distress of the Hocking valley miners, caused by the disastrous strike, and hopes expressed that capita and labor would find a less bloody and more satisfactory way of settling their differences. "I will extend the hand of friendship. Will you meet me half way ? Let us understand each other better and these unpleasant differences will disappear.".t j . s. Morton Deing caiiea ior responaea with a few well-chosen sentences, stating that he was selling coal as low as 95 cents a ton, or below the cost of loading on the cars, in order to hold the trade. He regretted it was necessary to ask the reduc tion in oreiei to keep tne mines running. Immediately alter tne closing ot tne speaking various complaints were made by the miners present. The system of docking, tne price ot nouse coai, snarpen-ing of picks, three men in a room, turning rooms without pay, the delivery of supplies, were all discussed, much to the satistaction ot tne miners. Messrs. liena and Morton waived all right to the coal coming from the docking system, agreeing to turn it over to a fund to care for the sick and disabled, the former agreeing to add 100 annually to any fund of this kiid left in the hands of an organization for its proper distribution. All other evils complained of were generally accept ed as being within tke power of the association to correct. The operators having withdrawn, "the miners proceeded in session as a mass meeting, and decided to hold a delegate meeting at this place at 10 a. m. Friday, to make hnal their decision. - The Sitnation in Jackson County. Special to the Ohio State Journal. Wellston, Feb. 25. Though the opera tors of Jackson, Coal ton and Wellston, at their meeting in Jackson, Tuesday, adopt ed resolutions fixing mining at Wellston at 50 and Coalton and Jackson at 55 cents. taking effect March 1, because of reliable information placing the Hocking valley price at 50 cents, this by no means tells the tale. At the same meeting tho price of powder, oil and other supplies was discussed, and reduced to a lower point than ever before. Even though such a resolution was adopted it may not be rati fied by the Operators' association when all. are assembled. The con tract with the miners, which recites that the price at Wellston shall be the same paid in the Hocking valley, and at Coalton and Jackson 5 cents above it, of course requires that such price be paid througnout tne Hocking valley region, The miners as weiJ as the operators recognize the fact that Wellston coal at 70 cents can not compete with flocking coal, if the latter be mined at 50 cents, and will, it is the general opinion here, accept the reduction if satisfied of a 50-cent rate throughout the valley. Some hot heads among the miners, it is true, desire to repudiate the contract with the operators and await the action of the U. M. A. A. lhe operators in this place generally decline to express them selves as to assent or dissent from the resoultions adopted at Jackson, but say thev will do as the rest do. A meeting of the Operators' association will be held in Jackson Friday night and the previous action ratified "or rejected. It is not likely mere will be any trouble over tne matter as there is a very healthy feeling existing between the miners and operators. A manifesto issued this morning bv the district president and secretary is regard ed simply as a blun. if a strike does re suit it will be of but short duration. ROMKIS'S ROCKET. Some of the Testimony Adduced in Hurd-Romeis Contest. Toledo, Feb. 26. The third day of the Hurd-Romeis contest brought forth eome interesting testimony. Precinct B, ward 8, where Romeis had 220 majority, was under consideration. " The first witness was Louis Johns, one of the Republican judges. His testimony showed that one of the judges did not live in the precinct ; that both clerks were Republican, and that there was a big mix in general ; the tally-sheet did not correspond with the poll-Dook, there being more tickets than names on the book. The clerks and judges attempted to hx things by distributing around the extra tickets. After this was done there were still more, showing very conclusively that somebody ws tampering with the box. There were present besides the judges ten or twelve members of each party. At 1 o clock the ludges got mad and signed the sheets, regardless of consequences. The testimony of Jame3 Keiley, a .Democratic ludge, was taken before another notary and substantiated Johns throughout. Gone Down With Flying Colors. Detroit, Feb. 26. The Times, an after noon daily, suspended today, owing to the lack of funds and failure in payment of promised money. It glories in the fact that it "scooped" the other Detroit papers in announcing its suspension, in less than three months that it has been run ning as an afternoon paper the circulation has doubled, reaching 11,000. The an nouncement is headed as follows : Dead. 'Tis dene." "The Times has ordered a coffin for one." "A gallant fight, a sore defeat, but death alone." "The Times could beat its hosts of friends ; it is left to them to sing its funeral requiem. The plant will probably be bought and the paper started by a stock company. Bhode Island Prohibitionists. Pbovidesce, Feb. 26. The Prohibition party of Rhode Island met in convention this morning for the purpose of nominat- ing a state ticket. Good attendance. A lively discussion was held over the platform, and resolutions which set forth in strong terms a firm and relentless opposition of the party to the manufacture and sale of intoxicants. The platform states it is the duty of any member of a political party to withdraw from it when it does not express or embody his political con victions, and recommends the withdrawal of true Prohibitionists from the Republican and Democratic parties. An Old Man's Wonderful Story. Pittsburg, Feb. 26. William Jackson Moore of Tridelphia, Washington county, came to this city today for he purpose of consulting legal advice concerning some property, of which he claims he has been defrauded by relatives. Moore, who is 61 years of age, tells a wonderful story of privations and sunermg. lie claims tnai for eleven years his step-daughter and her husband kept him a prisoner in a cellar, and .that he was not permitted to leave his prison, except oc casionally at night, when he would be allowed to walk about the yard bound ' with ropes. Some days . ago he missed his usual allowance of food which was passed him through a small hole in the door. Hearing no sound in the house he determined to make his escape, and with a large stone which he had worked loose in the wall battered the door down. His relatives were no where to be seen, and with the money which he found in one of the drawers he came to Pittsburg. By a previous imprisonment he says he was forced to make a will in favor of his step-daughter, and on the day preceding his incarceration the neighbors were informed that the old man was going to Michigan. The Murder of an Italian. Pittsburg, Feb. 26. A New Castle, Pa., special says : This morning at 1 o clock, while Sabaltino Cialetta, an Italian, was filling a cart with limestone at the Rosena furnace, an unknown man crawled up behind him and shot him in the back, com pletely riddling his body with buckshot. The report alarmed the other employes, who rushed at once to Uialetta s assist ance, but beiore tney reacned nim me was extinct, and the murderer bad lied. Cialetta was very unpopular with a number of his countrymen employed at the furnace, and it is supposed he was mur dered by one ol tnem. The "Oil Scouts" Organising. Pittsburg, Feb. 26. A Thorn Creek, Pa., special says: The oil field scouts, who furnish pointers on new developments, have organised what is known as "The Scouts' club," for the purpose of controll ing the oil market tor tneir own benent. Everv member is sworn to abide by orders agreed to by the majority of the club, and one ot the most important rules provides that no advices be sent out until a conference is held and a plan of operation is agreed upon. This may be to withhold information, "condemn a well," or report it other than the indications suggest. The Conso Conference. Washington, Feb. 26. Tne House cemmittee on foreign ailairs was in session four hours today considering the participation of this government in the Congo conference. The commltee meets tomorrow to decide upon the nature of the report, if any, which should accompany the resolutions, that if any report be adopted it will bo brief and will deal kindly with the administration, winie distinctly averring that participation in the conference was unfortunate, because it weakened the force-of the Monroe doctrine. He Will He Looked After. Nkw York, Feb. 26. It was said at the custom-house today that Captain Brackett, the recently deposed special agent, had been indicted by the United States grand jury. The specific charge on which tne beliet is based relates to tne loan of $250 which the captain obtained ot tne agent of an importing house and did not return until after the investigation into the affairs of his office began. A Kentucky Desperado. Louisville, Feb. 26. The examining trial of R. M. McBowling, who killed Of ficer Gill and abducted Miss Scott, began at Mt. Sterling today. Two attempts were made by tiiirs brothers to snoot Mo-Bowling, but were prevented by officers. There is much uneasiness, as McBowling's friends, it is rumored, will burn the city and rescue him. Mr. Sullivan is Still With Vs. Chicago, Feb. 26. In the preliminary hearing of Sullivan and O'Brien for perjury, committed in the trial of Mackin and others for election frauds, O'Brien was discharged on motion of the district attorney, the evidence not being sufficient to hold him. Sullivan and the other accused parties were held for further hearing. ' The Schuylkill Cal Supply. Philadelphia, Feb. 26. The coal op erators along the line of the Philadelphia and Reading railroad have been officially informed of the quota for the month of February to be filled today, and all shipments of coal therefor will be discontinued. It has been arranged that all colliers in the Schuylkill region shall work on three-quarter time during the month of March. Boasting a Socialist. New York, Feb. 26. Judge Wilde to day gave his decision in the case of Juatice Schwab, the notorious Socialist. There were two charges against the prisoner, the first for inciting a riot at a Socialist's meeting about a month ago, and the other for resisting the police who tried to arrest him. Schwab was held for trial on both charges in $2500 bail. ' In the Libel Bnsiness. New Yokk, Feb. 26. On February 10, Cyrus W. Field sued for libel Henry J.&boucher, editor ot .London Truth, and the publisher of that journal. Today a suit for libel on Field was served on Oakey Hall, the London agent of the New York Herald, and another writ issued against James Gordon Bennett, proprietor of the same journal. The Peach Crop Killed as Usual. Lawrknce. Kas.. Feb. 26. From re ports received bvthe Horticultural society the entire peach crop of Kansas will be a failure, with the probability ot the deatn of the young orchards. Applesan.l strawberries are reported all right, but blackberries and small berries generally are badly damaged by the severe cold. Gone to the Wall. Pittsbcrg, Feb. 26. Executions aggre gating $45,200 were issued today against IS. r . Kanerty & Co., coal operators, and their extensive property attached. An extension was granted the firm sometime ago, but it appears some of the creditors became dissatisfied and ordered aforeclosure- Connecticut lay.-New Orleans. Feb. 20. The event of the exposition was Connecticut day, and the formal restoration to its original owners of a tattered battle-flag, captured by the Ninth Connecticut regiment from the Third Mississippi at Pass Christian, Miss., in 1862. One Universal Shout for Grant. St. Paul. Mix.k.. Feb. 26. The Senate this morning, with two dissenting voices, passed a concurrent resolution relative to the retirement of General Grant, which passed the House yesterday. They All Do It. Tacoma, W. T., Feb. 26. T. S. Wilson, president, and C. B. Wilfly, cashier, of the Tacoma Savings bank, which failed a few days ago, were arreBted this sf ter-noon, charged with embezzlement. Gone Up in moke. Bloomincjtos, III., Feb. 26. Tho Pan-tagraph's Pontiac, 111., special says: The M. E. church burned last night. Loss $25,000, insurance $-5000, . PRELIMINARY FIREWORKS JUST BEFORE THE-INAUGURATION. Total Destruction of the National Theater in Washington This Moraine; A Terrible Fire Narrow Ks-eape of Other Buildings. Washington, Feb. 271 :40 a. m. The National theater was discovered on fire at 1 :30 and is now burning fiercely, lighting np all the central and western portions of the city. The fire had gained considerable headway before it was discovered. It evidently started in the rear of the stage and first was observed by two police officers as it burst through the roof, just over the center of the stage. They aroused the engineer of the theater, who was asleep in the second story of the building. So rapidly had the flames spread that they were compelled to put a ladder to his window and he only escaped in his night-clothes. . The fire department was soon on the scene, but within ten minutes from the time the fire was discovered, and before anything could be done to check it, the whole interior of the theater was a body of flame. All the scenery and properties, the wardrobe of the company playing at the theater this week (the AVallack theater company), books, etc., of the house, which were in the box office, have been destroyed . Only four walls of the theater building are now standing, and the flames have spread to the rear of the Harris house adjoining. The guests of this hotel hastily left for safer quarters. The origin of the fire is unknown. Last evening's performance closed before 11 o'clock. 2:20 a.m. At this writing the fire is under control and will be confined to the theater building and one small building adjoining, occupied as a cheap restaurant, and several small buildings on the lot in the rear of the theater, between it and the back of the Ebbitt house. The wall and roof of the Harris house, adjoining the theater, are pretty badly damaged and only the most strenuous exertions on the part of the firemen prevented the whole building from destruction. The theater building ;was owned by W. W. Rapley, who also managed the theater. He estimated the value of the building at $100,000, and furniture, scen ery and properties at $50,000, and says his insurance is about $40,000. The value of the wardrobe of the company is not known. The saloon and billiard-room in the theater building occupied by Miller & Jones was completely destroyed, witn the most of its contents. - The proprietors estimate their loss at about $20,000, but are unable to say what portion of this sum is covered by insur ance. One building in the rear of the theater, occupied as a store wareroom, was destroyed, with contents. - The value of this building is unknown, but the stock is valued at $5000; no insurance. The theater building was of. brick and was two stories high in front and four stories in the rear. It had a frontage of 83 feet and depth of 169 feet. Mt. Vernon Km, Special to the Ohio State JoumaL Mt. Vernon, O., Feb. 26. The grand jury has been in session since Tuesday and will probably not rise before a week. This term ot court gives promise of being a heavy one in criminal matters. Sheriff Beach today arrested Cal Hscard on a warrant sworn out by John Peoples, charg ing mm-with petit larceny. ' lie was taken before the justice s court and gave bond lor his appearance tomorrow at 10 o'clook a. m. Mrs. Jane Hill, an aged and respected lady, met with a serious accident last night. While sitting reading the plastering fell from the ceiling above her and inflicted injuries from which sue will die. Will Cheney, who was married here to Miss Lydia Lauderbaugh last summer, died today at the residence ol his . lather-in-law. He was in perfect health vesterdav. but from the effects of a ride he was taken last night with congestion ot the lungs, ot which he died at 3 o'clock today, y A Long Tramp. . New York, Feb. 26. Pedestrian Nore- mac tomcrht finished his task of walking one hundred days and making 5100 miles. BREVITIES. A fire at Willimantic, Conn., Thursday, destroyed the Cranston block. Loss $15,000. Frank Steele and Joe Ritchie were drowned at Chattanooga, Tenn., while attempting to cross Ulucamauga creek. John Green, of either St. Fanl, Minn., or Sedalia, Mo., committed suicide at St. Peter, Mo., Thursday, by shooting himself. A fire broke out in the general store of B. B. Copeland & Son, at Irwin, Pa., Thursday, destroying that with several other buildings. The loss will reach $15,000. Dr. Joseph H. D. Rodgers, a leading physician in southern Indiana, died Thursday morning at Madisen. The deeeased raised a company of volunteers, lod them to Texas and participated in the Texan war for inde pendence. HOCKING VALLEY THOUBLKS Investigated by the Legislature Colonel W. P. Kend Leads Off With the Testl. mony General Notes. - The joint committee of the General Assembly to investigate the troubles in connection with the Hocking Valley strike continued their session last evening after the resolutions were offered in both houses calling for more definite instructions as to the scope of the investigation or the limit of their powers. There is great difficulty in getting at the matter from a leeal or official standpoint. The first difficulty is as to the beginning, but it is not likely that the committee will go back further than a vear except to get a history of the organization and manipula tions of the railroad and coai corporations and the causes at different times of the labor troubles. The events of the past vear will, however, be con sidered. Th6 members of the committee found the demoralization so great in the House yesterday afternoon that they could get no satisfaction as to lnstruc-linns. It is thought that after the com mittee once gets its bearings in the big job that it has undertaken, that the doors will be thrown open to the press, as everything that is done gets out any way and the star chamber business is being generally condemned. There are very manv witnesses in the city ready to tike the stand, among them being i. a. nyseii, vice presiaeui. oi iud miuua State association: Christopher Evans, president of the Hocking Valley district ; Thomas Lawson, New Straitaville ; 11. B. Bodev. Carbon Hill: Joseph Devault, Carbon Hill; R. H. Miller, Shawnee; James Scott, Buchtel; J. H. Donley, Orbiston: James Scott and Alexander InVinann Xplftonville. Tim first witness was Colonel W. P. Rend, who took the stand at 5 o'clock ftprnoon. after the prelimi nnrien hail hpifn disposed of. and by his hold statements and exposition of the great contest in the valley be came near knocking the investigators out on the first round. He goes into the history of the union, the course the operators have pursued in fostering it, the condition of the milrnad mmnanv and tho relations of these different organizations to each other in an olnhnrfltR manner. He SPCaks of all hands, of oppression and depression, of the contests and their results with which the public is familiar. Judging' from the way the investigation starts out everything connected with the Hocking valley enterprises is to be investigated and the result will be awaited with considerable interest. National Guard Pay Day. The members of the National Guard who have been on duty in the Hocking vallev will be paid Saturday. To some of the men this will be joyful news, as their service there stopped revenue from other sources and they have felt the need of the money. Uompany a, or vus cuy, wm draw$l00. Today's Weather. Indications for the Ohio Valley and Tanneuee Slightly warmer, lair weather, south to west . winds. Lower Lake Local anows fallowed by lair weather, winds generally south to west, alight rise In temperature In east portion and Dearly stationary temperature in west portion. , Upper Mississippi Valley-Fair weather, slightly warmer, southerly winds. Hisiouri Valley Fair weather, warmer In south ern portions, stationary temperature in northern portions, south to west winds. THE RAILROADS. Bonds Consolidated. Madison. Wis.. Feb. 26. Articles of association were filed at the Department oi oiate yesieraay consolidating the Canada, La Crosse and Southwestern, and La Crosse and Southwestern railway nnder the title of the former. The proposed line is to start at some point on Lake Sn- Eerior in Michigan, extend southwest to a Crosse, and thence through Heaper and Charles City, Io., to some point on the" It is said a good portion of the right of way has been secured in Iowa. Local and General. The troubles arising from the snow blockade are gradually being overcome. Passenger Agent Hunter went to West- " erville yesterday to secure a large party for Kansas. W. H. Conn, local ticket eeent of the Ohio and West Virginia railroad at Mid-dleport, is in the city. Robert M. Smith, agent for the Chicago. Burlington and Ouincv at this point, haa gone to Cincinnati for a day or two. F. M. Caldwell, district passenger agent of the Panhandle, returned vesterdav from a brief visit to the Ohio river point. J. A. Webb, nasseneer agent of the Chicago, Milwaukee and Sc. Paul railroad, returned yesterday from an extended trio in the Northwest Stephen H. Mills, traveling passenger agent of the Northern Pacific railroad, . was in the city yesterday looking after the interests of his company. The Baltimore and Ohio express has just completed a change in their office. which makes it one of the best arranged express offices in the city. Charles Watts, division superintendent of the Panhandle at Logansport, and B. T. McCabe, division freight agent at Chicago, were in the city yesterday. Charles Traveer. traveling land agent of the Chicago and Northwestern railroad, passed through the city en route for Springfield and points South. Traveling Agent George W. Pangborn. of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe railroad, has removed his olKce from Meadville, Pa., to Columbus. Fred. Blankner, ir.. has resigned his position with the Door, Sash and Lumber Company and accepted a position with the Baltimore and Ohio Company. It is rumored that Receiver McLean, of the Cincinnati and Eastern, has decided to appoint Conductor John Breen, of the little Miami railroad, superintendent of that road. T.n. Tl.. l H,.O.t..l... ..J Cincinnati Midland, left vesterday for a little pleasure trip East He will spend some time in Philadelphia and Westchester, Pa. George Tolman, traveling passenger agent of the Indiana, Bleomington and Western railroad, was in the city v ester-- day. Mr. Tolman carries a "cut-rate" knife with a blade like a cavalry sword. The Baltimore and Ohio Company has decided to build a passenger depot at Pittsburg, and to otherwise improve its terminal facilities at that point The improvements are expected to cost $500,000. The Columbus. Hocking Valley and To ledo railroad is carrying from 425 to 450 cars of coal a day and business still on the increase. The amount hauled yesterday and day before was 900 cars 450 each day. A long freight train was stretched across High street yesterday, which not only stopped travel on the street, but also blockaded the approaches to the depot Two hacks loaded with passengers for outgoing trains were detained fully 7 minutes, and barely reached the depot in time to make a hurried connection with the trains. The train was unnecessarily long, as it extended from the tracks in the rear of the east baggage-room to the Exchange hotel. The Pennsylvania people have intro duced a new and very accommodating feature on their limited express trains. The conductor of each of the limited trains is supplied with a package of large envelopes. They were invented by an employe of the company, and are weight-. ed with lead, so that they may be tossed from a moving tran to a station agent by EaaseDgera who wish to forward telegrams efore the train reaches its next stopping place. On the envelopes are printed directions for the telegraph operator to forward the dispatch at once. FOUR ROUNDS TO DECIDE IT. A Glove Contest with Robert Parrel A r- ranged for Nest Month. Themes Hammond of Akron, accompa nied by his manager, Augustus Kagle of the same place, has been in the city for the past two days, trying to arrange a meeting with Bob Barrel in a glove con test for next month. Preliminaries were settled yesterday and a mill arranged for some date between -Marcn n ano io. A hall has not been secured, bnt Mr. Farrel is to engage one and netify Hammond of the place and date. The contest is to be for "scientific points," four rounds. Police Gazette rules, the net receipts for the evening to go to the winner. Ham mond formerly lived at riusuurg ana New Castle, Pa., and still earlier, under the cognomen of "the Richmond champion," icught a match with Charles Doherty of Richmond, Va., which laeted 2 hours and 10 minutes, Hammond winning, although entering the ring with a broken hand. He claims to have fought in seventeen fights in England and America and to have won in all but one. Hammond is a well put np man, and seems to be a good match for Farrell in every way. He left for Akron to go into training. A Valuable Present. Dr. Alexander Neil received from Representative . Greiner yesterday a small wooden ink-stand, which is possessed of peculiar value as a souvenir. It is the one car ried by Lieutenant General Fhil. Sberidan while engaged in the Shenendoah valley in 1864, and was accompanied by a letter s'ating that he also carried it while a captain of the Third infantry in Oregon. Captain Greiner received it from J. Sheridan, a member of his company, and said as Dr. Neil was an ardent admirer and had served under the general he took pleasure in translerring the memento to him. A Rink at Canal Winchester. Quite a party of young men went to Canal Winchester last night to witness the opening of the rink just completed at that place by Messrs. Chaney and Speaks. The managers have rented the largn foundry which was bmlt there some year ago and which has fallen into disuse, and have put down a maple floor covering bn whole interior, making one of the largest rinks in the slate in a town of that size. The opening was a splendid success. Not a StunVd Club. Allen O. Myers has a cane that is quila remarkable. It was made by a convict at the penitentiary from a hoop-pole. Ou the cane are the names of the "prison committee" and there are other name, and figures on the stick, all rn"in8 rom. the handle to the ferrule end. There am 412 letter, on the wood. The workon (lh cane represents many hours of labor and much skill on the part of the prisoner,

Mmln E WW v ESTABLISHED 1811. VOL. XLVI. NO. 50. COLUMBUS, FRIDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 27, 1885. TWENTY-FOUR YEAR FAST, AND A LONG TIME BETWEEN DRINKS. The Hugrj Hi Thirsty Democrats Will Therefor. Trip th. Festive Brogan at the Inaugural How th. Work la Profi easing; A Batch of W.w. Special to the Ohio State Journal. . Wabhikgtos, Feb. 20. There were very-lively scenes at the new pension building today. Workmen were so thick making ready for the inaugural ball that one could scarcely trace them. It is intended that the room shall be finally completed by Saturday night. All the decorations will be finished then, except the placing of the pot plants, which will not be done until the 3d of March. . Members of the executive committee are personally superintending the work. When the State Jocbxal correspondent visited the ball-room this afternoon there were decorators, gas-fitters, carpenters and artisans of various kinds, engaged in their different occupations. The sharp tap of the hammer and shouts of the foreman woke the echr.es of the great building,' Gunsell, the decorator, had most of his material in hand, and much of the work of draping. The ceiling bad .been .festooned from the roof, , and shields and decorations, adorning the pillars on the lower floor, bad been placed in position. Huge columns in the center of the building had been swathed in white muslin and the work of twining garlands of . smilax about them commenced. Gunsell said he did not want to bring the rich material to be used in hanging and draping the hall into the building until the last moment. The spacious rooms opening into the hall on the lower floor have all been assigned to different purposes, one to the President, one to the diplomatic corps, one fitted up with telegraph instruments for the press, another to the reception committee and another to the general committee. Other rooms will be used as cloak-rooms, supper-rooms and wine-rooms. Provision for the comfort of the guests will be most complete. The cloak-rooms are commodious. Each attendant will have charge of 120 boxes, which have been designated according to a system of letters and numbers. These are also commodious. The toilet and retiring-rooms and kitchen will be in a separate frame building outside the main building, and service between the kitchen and dining-rooms will be through windows. The supper-rooms will accommodate 700 people at a time, or it is estimated 1400 people an hour. It is proposed to place a fire company in the gallery, at each end of the hall, and besides there will be a force of police in the building. The chief of police and chief of the 'fire department will have a room, and electric bells will be put in, so that they can com- . manicate at once with their men, if there is occasion. The walls of the series of rooms fitted up for the President's reception are now being painted and decorated. Five thousand dollars worth of furniture will be placed in these rooms. ' The committee on public comfort is very busy answering letters, telegrams and verbal inquiries. It announces that there is plenty of room yet at reasonable prices. Extra tracks are being hud within the eitv bv the railroad companies to accommodate the inaugural business. These are but temporary, of course, and are laid upon the streets by special permission. The trains will run between here and Bal timore on two roads every twenty minutes. Very extensive preparations were begun today for fireworks on the mgnc oi March 4. They will be placed on the monument grounds. The contractors having the fireworks in charge propose to paint the sky red. They have brought a large quantity of material which will be manufactured on the ground. One set piece will be as large as the front of the new pension building. There will be a fiery representa- uon oi we uapitoi t Dy loo leet. One piece will be a portrait of Jefferson 60 feet hi eh. and a view of Niagara, 65 by 300 feet, will be . given. The objeet of doing so much of the work here is to avoid the expense of bringing several car loads of scaffolding and frames from New York. The contractors promise the nnest pyrotechnic display ever seen in this country. . Portal sod Personal. David Rockey has been designated as act ing postmaster at Chatfield, O., after March 2. Buckeye College and Redfield will be omitted from the star mail service on the route from Jew Lexington, and the route will begin at Rehoboth. Miss Ea telle Cleveland of Wilmington. O.. a cousin of the President-elect, has been in vited to the White-house to assist in the in auguration day festivities. - W. A. Hardesty of Columbus is at Will- arus. John Gardner of Norwalk, and 8. E. Phin- , ney and W. B. Raymond and wife of Akron are at tne xuggs. Western Associated Press Dispatches. To Get Another Chance at the Treaty. WAf HiKGToir, Feb. 26. Negotiations have been in progress between the United States and Spain for the extention until May 18, 1876, of the time within which the Spanish reciprocity treaty may be ratified by the United States Senate and put into effect by congressional legislation. The present limitation of the period is six months from No vember 18, 1881, the date of the treaty's signature. It is understood the negotiations were conducted by Ministers Foster and Valeria of this city, and are practically con- . cinoea witn tne enect a Dove indicated. Increasing the Naval BUI. Washihgtox, Feb. 26. The Senate com mittee on appropriations increased the naval appropriation bill as sent from the House by $2,364,600. The principal items of increase are an appropriation of $2,000,000 for continuing work on the double-turreted moni tors. S3OO.O0O for the armament of the new cruisers and gunboats, $115,000 for the con-- struction of steel cruisers and gunboats, and $au,uuu ior tne general maintenance ot tne oureau oi yards and uocks. Exports and Imports. ' Washikgtos, Feb. 26. The excess of values of exports over imports of merchandise for the month of January, $38,343,960; twelve months ended January 31, 1885, $138,756,652. The total values of imports of merchandise lor twelve months ended January 31, 1885, $617,166,928. Total value of exports of merchandise for twelve months ended Janu ary 31, 1885, $755,923,680. Of So Possible Use to Republicans. Washington, Feb. 26. The civil service examinations will be held in the Western and Northwestern states as follows: Cleveland March 18, Detroit March 20, Kansas City March 24, St. Paul March 24, Minneapolis March 25, Madison, Wis., March 27. At all these examinations applicants for de partmental service in Washington will te examined. Confirmod. Washisgtox, Feb. 26. The following nominations were confirmed by the Senate today: Registers of land offices Charles T. " Lewiston, I. T. : Mark 8. Blunt, Pueblo, Col. ; Theodore F. Singiser, receiver of public moneys at Mitchell, Dak. Postmasters Oscar B. Knickerbocker, Kane, 111.; Dayton naie, tjoiumDus, miss. hat's the Way to Get am Appropriation., Washington, Feb. 26. A very handsome dinner was given at Welcker's hotel tonight by Major E. A. Burke, of the New Orleans Times-Democrat, to his fellow-journalists in Washington. Nearly all the Washington correspondents and prominent local newspa per men were among tne guests. A Statu, to Lafayette. Washington, Feb. 26. Senator Sherman reported to the Senate today an amendment to the sundry civil bill, which provides for the' erection in the District of Columbia of a statue to the memory of General Lafayette to cost fou.uuu. So Sorry. Washington, Feb. 26. Members of the - House who signed the communication sent rresident-clect Cleveland relative to the suspension of silver coinage, decline to give his answer to the public in anticipation of his inaugural address. HIS SECOND FLIGHT. An Ex-Mayor of Adrian, Mich., Leaves Washington Territory Under m Cloud. Poet TowNsssn, W. T., Feb. 26. The following are the particulars relating to the flight of ex-Mayor Thomas Nevins: About a year ago he came here from Tacoma, W. T., and engaged in practicing law under the name of John B. Voorhis, and soon became associated with A. L. Teele, The firm of Teele & Voorhis flour- iahed. On Teele's election as justice of the peace last November the firm dissolved. Voorhis began to practice on his own account. After his disappearance on Saturday it transpired that he was the ab- i - t i. - Bccnaing mayor oi Aurutu, uiicn., wiiu, with a portion of the city council, issued city bonds for water-works, and sold the bonds to tne extent oi ou,-000. This resulted in those who were responsible being found guilty for exceeding their official authority. . Voorhis claimed that he left to screen others, assuming the responsibility himself. He was single, while the others were married. He also stated that he received no money for the bonds, it being deposited in a Hew York Dank in trust for the city of Adrian. The bonds were subsequently cancelled. Adrian lost nothing. When he arrived here he was recog nized by persons who knew him in Michigan, and he convinced them that he came West with a desire to redeem mmseii, so they permitted the matter to rest until his flight became known. His friends here claim that his indebtedness, the amount of which is not known, will be paid in full. ' DEATH'SPALETLAG Waves Over the Ramparts of tho Illinois Senatorial Struggle. Springfield, In,., Feb. 26. Judge Rob ert Logan of Whiteside dropped dead at the head of the House stairs as he was on his way to the chamber. The elevator was not running and he attempted to walk up the long stairway. Logan has been ailing all session with heart disease and could not stand excitement of any kind. When he dropped on the House floor opposite the main entrance to the chamber he was picked np by friends and carried into the anteroom and doctors called. Five minutes later he was pronounced dead. In the House this morning it was re solved that a committee of two senators and three representatives, with the door keeper of the House, attend the funeral of Logan. it was resolved that members ot the House accompany the remains to the train in a body. Also resolved that a committee of five be appointed to draft suitable resolutions relative to the death of Logan. In the senate the resolutions of the House were concurred in and adjourned. la joint session it was arranged that no vote would be taken for United States senator before next Tuesday. lhe greatest excitement prevailed in the House and Senate, and profound regret was expressed on all sides. The body will be taken home to Morrison to night or tomorrow. Chicago, Feb. 26. The Times will to morrow publish interviews with Hon. M. W. Fuller, Judge W. O. Goudy and Hon. S. Corning Judd, leading Democratic lawyers of this state, upon the effect which the death of .Representative Logan will have upon the senatorial deadlock at Springfield. They agree in saying it does not change the status of affairs. That the law requires a majority of all the members of both houses elected to be present and voting, in order to constitute a quorum.. The lull roster of the joint assembly is 204, and the presence of 103 is necessary to make it a legal bod v for the choice of senator. With this number present and voting, a majority of the votes cast, it is claimed, will elect. There are 102 Democratic members of the joint assembly, and since the death of Representative Logan, 101 Republican members, so that either party to secure a constitutional quorum must have the assistance of 'one or more members of the opposite party. . Three weeks -or - more will elapse before Representative Logan's place can be filled by a special election. mis aiternoon arrangements were made by the committee having charge of the body of Logan to convey it to the depot lor transportation to his home in Morrison tonight at 12 o'clock. They will be conveyed to the depot, followed b Logan 8 son and a large number of members and citizens generally. The committee appointed to accompany the body to Aiomson were senators Snyder and Ben, Messrs. Johnson, In galls and McMillan. By the death of Logan the House and Senate jointly stands. Democrats 1AO nMnillni. fit.Wa. m n A 17.1.00 Independent Democrats, Republicans 101. in order to elect a Senator, 103 constitutes a quorum, consequently if the Republicans refuse to vote as they now propose, an election of a senator will not take place until after the successor to Logan is elected. It was thought that by the death of Logan 102 would constitute a quorum, but it is understood here by leaders on both sides that such is net the case. Governor Oglesby this afternoon signed an order calling for the election of a representative in White side conntv, in place of Logan, deceased. to take place March 21. There will be no business done in either House or Senate, aside from taking a formal ballot for sen ator, until Tuesday. A large number of members are pairing and going home tonight. WOKS OF THE WABASH. Strike of Employes in the Shops at Spring field Similar Action Feared Elsewhere. Springfield, III., Feb. 26. Two hun dred employes of the Wabash railway agreed, late last night, to strike against the proposed reduction of 10 per cent, in wages. Telegrams were received from Fort Wayne, Moberly, Mo., Chicago and Decatur, announcing that the workmen in those cities would also strike. About half .of the employes of the Wabash shops went out on a strike this morning against . a reduction of wages from 5 to 10 per cent. The strikers are not at all organized. There are about 400 men employed in the works. The strik ers claim to nave received telegrams from Chicago, Moberly, Fort Wayne and Decatur informing them of the co-operation in the strike. The superintendent says he has no intimation of a strike at Fort Wayne-. Chicago, h eb. 26. The Wabash officials here state that they have no knowledge as yet ol any strike among tne employes ot the railway in this city. Notices, how ever, have been posted up in tne shops and in the yards here, and employes state they are awaiting the action which may be taken by those in the employ of the road at springheld. THE HIGH PRIEST OF COAL. OIL. Senator-Elect Payne Refers to tho Elect oral Commission and OtherPre-Adam-ite Matters. Clevilaxd, Feb. 26. Senator-elect Henry B. Payne was tendered a complimentary dinner by William Edwards to night, previous to his departure for Washington. All the prominent professional and business men in the city were pres ent. Mr. Payne, during his speech , spoke of the electoral commission, of which he was a member, and said that if the presidential controversy had not been settled by the commission, a civil war would have been the result, as 500,000 men were ready and willing to adjust the matter by arms. He was chairman of the committee that considered the bill that established the tribunal, and was offered political advancement if he would report adversely- on the bill. He refused because he believed the commission for the best interests of the country at large. Colonel John Hay suggested that Mr. Payne might succeed Cleveland in 1888. Mr. Payne in reply said that he had all the political honor he wanted, and his highest aim was to do his duty as a Senator and satisfy the state he represented. Nenl Mast Swing. Loi'isville, Feb. 26. William Neal, the last of the celebrated Ashland murderers, will be hung tomorrow at Grayson, Ky., the Governor having refused to interfere with the law. HOW HE CAUGHT A TARTAR HE DIDN'T THINTC IT WAS LOADED. Adoniram Jonadab Warner Asks Hon. w. Dudley Questions, and Ascertains Much That He. Didn't Want to Know That Alleged Pension Inquiry. Washington, Feb. 26. Colonel Dudley, ex-commissioner of pensions, was further examined by the Warner committee today. General Warner asked if the witness did not know that special examiners in Ohio, and especially in the close districts, were representing themselves as being in witness s employ, and that the pension claimants were cautioned to vote the Republican ticket if they wished to get their claims through. The witness knew nothing of the kind, and if he had known it would have denounced it. General Warner asked if the lists of claimants in the pension office were not furnished in order that political work might be carried on? Witness replied that that was the case. They were furnished by General Warner and others engaged in political work. "Myself and others had no access to the records," said the chairman. Mr. Hart You had a list of the pensioners in Ohio, General Warner I didn't say pensioners.Mr. Hart Any man in the S.'ate of Ohio or anywhere else can get it. Mr. Warner There is a difference between claimants and pensioners. Nobody has the right to it. Witness Well, nobody has been f sr-nisbed any such list from my office. I indignantly deny it, and I very much regret you should ask me sueh a question, for you ought to know me. You know it was not so because you wrote me a letter to that effect and I answered, telling you it was not so. Mr. Warner I think I had no such correspondence with yon. Witness Yon wrote me a letter, saying that the pension office was being used against you. Mr. Warner Can you produce the letter to that effect? I demand the letter I wrote you, the letter protesting against anv contracts. Witness No, sir; yon wrote me a letter against the pension office being used to your detriment, and I wrote yon that it was not so. Mr. Warner I wrote you respecting a special pension case. Witness I will ask you now, as I have a right to protect myself, if you did not ? Mr. Warner Bring the letter; bring the letter. Mr. Hart (laughingly) Answer the question, general. Mr. Warner I am not on the witness stand. Mr. Hart Well, you may be before this is over. I would like to ask yon some questions. Mr. Warner I would testify to somethings that would not please you. Mr. Hart I would be happy to have you go on just twenty minutes, general. Mr. Warner to witness How did you sign the letter addressed to me. Witness I think I signed it personally. I am net sure, but you have the letter and you can see. Mr. Warner I think you signei it ai commissioner. Witness I think I did not. Mr. Rogers questioned the witness as to the length of his absence from the office, to which Dudley replied, "Fifty-seven days." The witness further stated that he'had drawn his pay during the time of his absence. The rules which governed the subordinates about leaves were not applicable to the heads of the bureaus. He added he was not conscious of having neglected his duties, and that his attention to his official duties while in Washington consumed twelve hours a day, which was nearly double the time required of clerks. Mr. Rogers I want to ask you if yon think it had a very healthy influence on your bureau for it to go all over the country that he had quitted his post and gone into the country and stayed the length of time you state, looking after his party's political interests ? Witness You ask for my opinion ? Mr. Rogers Yes, sir. Witness In my judgment it Bhonld have no deleterious influence npon the office unless it were understood I was acting as commissioner at the same time. Mr. Rogers called witness's attention to a circular issued by mm as commissioner of pensions, in which the clerks of his office are cautioned in strong terms against the misuse of their hour of duty. Mr. Rogers asked witness's opinion of the principle of the circular as applied to his own case. Witness thought he came within the exceptions noted in the circular. He had set the example, when on duty, of working not six and a half hours a day, but twelve Hours a day. Mr. Rogers Do you mean when you were absent ? A. No, sir ; in office. Q. I am asking with respect to your absence. A. I think I worked eighteen hours a day when I was absent. Mr. Rogers asked: Why, if you could take 57 days with pay, could you not take the whole 365 ? A. Well, that is a question in ethics I can not answer. Mr. Rogers Well, I can't either. Witness declared he thought it not detrimental to any man to be faithful to his party allegiance; that he would not abridge any man's right to influence results, so long as he did not neglect his duties, or consume time for which he was paid by the government. General Warner questioned witness -as to the reason why nine special examiners were sent into his (Warner's) district while onlj one was required in the neighboring district, and why the force of examiners in Ohio was increased from 60 to 101 just before election? Witness -replied if such was the case, and he did not know it was, the reason would be found in the necessities of the office. Witness was unable to state how many special examiners were Republicans and 'how many Democrats. He did not believe any one knew the politics of half the examiners. They had been appointed under the civil service rules. During the subsequent colloquy the fact was developed that one of the special examiners in Ohio was working for the re-election of Representative Le Fevre, a Democrat. FOREIGN NEWS. ENGLAND. London, Feb. 26. The army estimates for the year 18S6 are announced. They amount to 17,820,700. This sum includes the expenditures which the Soudan expedition necessitates. Lord Salisbury said, in submitting a motion of censure in the House today, that the government acted throughout as if they were unwilling to arrive at a decision until the very last moment. They always waited until an external pressure forced them to form some kind of decision. The result of these hastily conceived measures had been throughout deplorable. In the absence of any fixed policy the government had adopted an absurd plan of taking-advantage of the chivalry and self-devotion of one of the noblest spirits of the age, to accomplish by mere words and promises what they lacked the courage to accomplish by force of arms. The speaker then reviewed the events in Egypt from the .period of Arabi's rebellion to that of the present troubles in the Soudan. The government, he declared, knew General Gordon was in clanger, and although thev knew he was endaneered thev held back from sending him succor, thereby incurring the penalty of the present indelible disgrace. A dispatch from Tangier says the admiral commanding the United States steamer Lancaster, which arrived at that nort a few davs aeo to support a demand of the United States consul for the release ot two persons unjustly imprisoned, gave notice to the government of Morocco on the 21st inst. that twenty days would be granted within which the prisoners should be liberated and reparation given, and if within that time the demands were not acceded to, the admiral would denounce the Madrid convention of 1SS0 and refer the matter to the government at Washington for further action. A terrible explosion occurred tnis afternoon at the Royal school ot gunnery at Shoeburyness, while a number of artillery officers and scientists were testing a new patent fuse. Three men were killed outright and several fatally wounded. Among the latter were some of the most prominent officials of the government laboratory at Woolwich. A letter has been received at Korti from a nun taken prisoner when Khartoum fell into the hands of the Arabs and who is now kept in captivity in the Mahdi's camp at Omdurinan. She confirms the statement that 1 Mahdi's troops massacred the soldiers of the garrison and many peaceful citizens, and she states the the number of persons slaughtered to hjp fully 2000. fs' FKANCK. Paris, Feb. 26. The Chamber of Deputies has rejected the counter proposals of M. Germain to abolish the tax on unoccupied land and raise the necessary revenue by an increase of the duty upon alcoholic liquors. In accordance with the request of Prince Hohenlohe the German v ambassador to France, the government has order.-ed the expulsion of German Socialists concerned in the riot which occurred on the occasion of the funeral of Jules Valles, the well known socialistic journalist. ' , The text of the. new commercial treaty between France and Bremen is published. The contracting powers accord each other the "favored nation" treatment in all matters of commercial intercourse. The merchants, exempted from employing royal brokers for the transaction of business in the Burmese markets and Bur-mah is forbidden to maintain or create monopolies. The customs duties remain the same as they were, except that opium is liable to 30 per cent, increase, i Knubley, an English journalist, who" it is alleged concocted the reports of the Irish dynamite convention, said to have been held in this city on the 23d, has been arrested on the charge of having attempted to shoot the editor of La France, who accused him of having fabricated the story. The difficulty between the editor of La France and Mr. Inubley, growing out of an altercation that the recently published story of a dynamite convention was a canard, occurred at the office of La France. Knubley called and asked to see the editor who wrote the article, in which the belief was expressed that the whole account of the convention was a hoax. When the editor appeared there was a brief wrangle. Knubley then drew a revolver and threatened to shoot the editor, but the editor had his pistol out about as soon as Knubley. While the two men thus stood confronting each other bystanders interposed and prevented bloodshed. Knubley was arrested. He swore the dynamite convention was held, but declined to mention the locality. It is now alleged by those who declare that the recently reported congress of dynamiters in this city was a hoax, that the whole affair was concocted by the foreign police for the purpose of alarming England and inducing her to become a party to the proposed international extradition treaty against dynamiters. The Catholic missionary organ states that several hundred Catholics, residents of Yun-Nan,- have been massacred in obedience to secret orders from the Chinese viceroy. IRELAND. DcBLisr,, Feb. 26. United Ireland today, in commenting on the proposed visit of the Prince of Wales to Ireland, disclaims any gratuitous disrespect for the prince. "But," it says, "if the castle flunkies organize mock demonstrations of enthusiasm they may rest assured there will be counter displays, which will overshadow any demonstrations Earl Spencer may inaugurate. The Irish Times asserts that a threaten ing letter has been received at Marlborough house and at the Home office from professed Fenians, warning the officials that the visit of the Prince of AVales to Ireland will be attended with danger. At Abbeyfeale, a village-in Limerick county, eleven farmers were evicted to day for non-payment of rent. Many policemen were present and all attempts at disorder were prevented. RUSSIA. . St. Petersburg, Feb. 20. The Zeitung says tnat although tne Russian and Brit ish advances into the Afghan frontier zone will tend to complicate the situation, the hope is entertained in well informed quarters that the question will be brought to a satisfactory settlement. .England. the paper says, must be convinced that Kussia will not occupy Herat. It also is of the opinion that exclusive British oc cupation is not likely to be undertaken, ior tne reason tnat it will be too hazard ous. AUSTRALIA. Adelaide, Feb. 26. The colonists of South Australia are generally aggrieved at the answer made by Earl Derby to their communication, m which they offered to send troops to the Soudan, and fail to per ceive a satisfactory reason why a preference should have been shown the people of ew South Wales, whose offer of as sistance was accepted by the home gov ernment GERMANY. Berlin, Feb. 26. The Congo conference had a final sitting today. Bismarck presided. He announced that the African international ssscciation had signified ad hesion to the decisions of the conference. and the documents had been signed bv President Strauch. on behalf of the asso ciation. The delegates then signed the documents, fourteen in number, and the conference was declared closed. Foreign Notes. Advices from Durban, South Africa, state that martial law has been proclaimed in Bechuan aland. Admiral Courbet will take a position near Shanghai, for the purpose of intercepting vessels with rice cargoes. The Governor of Caucasus has asked of the Russian government permission to send scientific expedition to Korassen. England bas refused to recognize the Trench declaration making rice contraband of war, if found on vessels bound to or from Chinese ports. The steamer Lydian Monarch, from Kingstown with troops for Suakim, about which rumor was current that she had foundered in St. George's channel, passed Ushant Sun day. The commander of the German corvette Stoch. at Hone Kong, has received by tele graph orders of considerable leDgth. It is believed the vessel will proceed to the Pa cific. In the House of Lords Thursday the Marauis of Salisbury moved a vote of cen sure on the government for its Egyptian policy. The motion was greeted with loud applause. Mail advices from Nassau, if., state a dvnamite scare is prevailing and the public buildings are being carefully guarded day and night, on account of advices received that a plot had been discovered in New York which threatened the colonial buildings. The friends of the missing Radford have started a subscription to provide funds for making a systematic search for him and bringing him back to Toronto. It is firmly believed that he is wandering about in a state of mental derangement caused by busi ness anxieties. In the Holland Parliament, Thursday, the prime minister stated that England and Germany had recognized the boundaries of Dutch territory in New Guinea as claimed by the Netherlands. In regard to Borneo, he said it was only necessary for Holland to fix the boundary in connection with the British company. A Satisfactory Appointment. Cheyenne. Wt Feb. 26. ihe news of the President's nomination of T. E. Warren as Governor of Wyoming territory is received with much satisfaction here. The appointment is considered an .excellent one and gives satisfaction to the entire territory. DOWN IN THE COAL MINES. THE SPECK OF WAR IN THE VALLEY. The Meeting; of Miners and Operators at Corning The Likely Outcome of It The Situation at Wells-ton and Other Points. Special to the Ohio State Journal. Corning, Feb. 25. The redaction of the price of mining, which has been anticipated ever since the break in the Hocking valley strike, and refused by the district convention when asked to accept by the state committee, has brought a crisis in the coal mining of the Sunday creek valley. The representatives of the Ohio Central Coal Company, W. P. Rend fc Co. and the Sunday Creek Coal Company, after holding a meeting in Columbus on Wednesday visited a mass meeting of miners hastily called together in the freight depot of this place. The operators having given notice of their coming, a special was sent from Jacksonville with 150 miners from No. 4 mine. These, with those present from Nos. 3, 5, 7 and 11, numbered about 500, assembled in the freight depot. At 8 p. m. they were called to order by James McLaughlin, secretary of this district. The president being absent James Nelson was elected as temporary chairman. J. T. Martin was the first speaker introduced. Mr. Martin stated that owing to the competition of the Hocking valley they were obliged to ask a reduction of 10 cents a ton, which, owing to some large contracts that had to be bid for the first of next month, must be accepted now, or the work would pass out of their hands and out of the valley. W. P. Rend, the next speaker introduced, was received with extended applause. Mr. Rend, although stating he did not come prepared to make a speech, gave a history of capital and labor from the time of Adam to the strike in the Hocking valley. Mr. Rend graphically pictured the servility of labor to capital, picking his illustrations from the slaves of the Romans to our own liveried servant and "coat-of-arms" aristocracy, closing by stating that necessity had driven him to take this step to deprive labor of itB legitimate earnings, in order to keep his mines running and give ' work to those "whom God knows need it." Reference was made to the distress of the Hocking valley miners, caused by the disastrous strike, and hopes expressed that capita and labor would find a less bloody and more satisfactory way of settling their differences. "I will extend the hand of friendship. Will you meet me half way ? Let us understand each other better and these unpleasant differences will disappear.".t j . s. Morton Deing caiiea ior responaea with a few well-chosen sentences, stating that he was selling coal as low as 95 cents a ton, or below the cost of loading on the cars, in order to hold the trade. He regretted it was necessary to ask the reduc tion in oreiei to keep tne mines running. Immediately alter tne closing ot tne speaking various complaints were made by the miners present. The system of docking, tne price ot nouse coai, snarpen-ing of picks, three men in a room, turning rooms without pay, the delivery of supplies, were all discussed, much to the satistaction ot tne miners. Messrs. liena and Morton waived all right to the coal coming from the docking system, agreeing to turn it over to a fund to care for the sick and disabled, the former agreeing to add 100 annually to any fund of this kiid left in the hands of an organization for its proper distribution. All other evils complained of were generally accept ed as being within tke power of the association to correct. The operators having withdrawn, "the miners proceeded in session as a mass meeting, and decided to hold a delegate meeting at this place at 10 a. m. Friday, to make hnal their decision. - The Sitnation in Jackson County. Special to the Ohio State Journal. Wellston, Feb. 25. Though the opera tors of Jackson, Coal ton and Wellston, at their meeting in Jackson, Tuesday, adopt ed resolutions fixing mining at Wellston at 50 and Coalton and Jackson at 55 cents. taking effect March 1, because of reliable information placing the Hocking valley price at 50 cents, this by no means tells the tale. At the same meeting tho price of powder, oil and other supplies was discussed, and reduced to a lower point than ever before. Even though such a resolution was adopted it may not be rati fied by the Operators' association when all. are assembled. The con tract with the miners, which recites that the price at Wellston shall be the same paid in the Hocking valley, and at Coalton and Jackson 5 cents above it, of course requires that such price be paid througnout tne Hocking valley region, The miners as weiJ as the operators recognize the fact that Wellston coal at 70 cents can not compete with flocking coal, if the latter be mined at 50 cents, and will, it is the general opinion here, accept the reduction if satisfied of a 50-cent rate throughout the valley. Some hot heads among the miners, it is true, desire to repudiate the contract with the operators and await the action of the U. M. A. A. lhe operators in this place generally decline to express them selves as to assent or dissent from the resoultions adopted at Jackson, but say thev will do as the rest do. A meeting of the Operators' association will be held in Jackson Friday night and the previous action ratified "or rejected. It is not likely mere will be any trouble over tne matter as there is a very healthy feeling existing between the miners and operators. A manifesto issued this morning bv the district president and secretary is regard ed simply as a blun. if a strike does re suit it will be of but short duration. ROMKIS'S ROCKET. Some of the Testimony Adduced in Hurd-Romeis Contest. Toledo, Feb. 26. The third day of the Hurd-Romeis contest brought forth eome interesting testimony. Precinct B, ward 8, where Romeis had 220 majority, was under consideration. " The first witness was Louis Johns, one of the Republican judges. His testimony showed that one of the judges did not live in the precinct ; that both clerks were Republican, and that there was a big mix in general ; the tally-sheet did not correspond with the poll-Dook, there being more tickets than names on the book. The clerks and judges attempted to hx things by distributing around the extra tickets. After this was done there were still more, showing very conclusively that somebody ws tampering with the box. There were present besides the judges ten or twelve members of each party. At 1 o clock the ludges got mad and signed the sheets, regardless of consequences. The testimony of Jame3 Keiley, a .Democratic ludge, was taken before another notary and substantiated Johns throughout. Gone Down With Flying Colors. Detroit, Feb. 26. The Times, an after noon daily, suspended today, owing to the lack of funds and failure in payment of promised money. It glories in the fact that it "scooped" the other Detroit papers in announcing its suspension, in less than three months that it has been run ning as an afternoon paper the circulation has doubled, reaching 11,000. The an nouncement is headed as follows : Dead. 'Tis dene." "The Times has ordered a coffin for one." "A gallant fight, a sore defeat, but death alone." "The Times could beat its hosts of friends ; it is left to them to sing its funeral requiem. The plant will probably be bought and the paper started by a stock company. Bhode Island Prohibitionists. Pbovidesce, Feb. 26. The Prohibition party of Rhode Island met in convention this morning for the purpose of nominat- ing a state ticket. Good attendance. A lively discussion was held over the platform, and resolutions which set forth in strong terms a firm and relentless opposition of the party to the manufacture and sale of intoxicants. The platform states it is the duty of any member of a political party to withdraw from it when it does not express or embody his political con victions, and recommends the withdrawal of true Prohibitionists from the Republican and Democratic parties. An Old Man's Wonderful Story. Pittsburg, Feb. 26. William Jackson Moore of Tridelphia, Washington county, came to this city today for he purpose of consulting legal advice concerning some property, of which he claims he has been defrauded by relatives. Moore, who is 61 years of age, tells a wonderful story of privations and sunermg. lie claims tnai for eleven years his step-daughter and her husband kept him a prisoner in a cellar, and .that he was not permitted to leave his prison, except oc casionally at night, when he would be allowed to walk about the yard bound ' with ropes. Some days . ago he missed his usual allowance of food which was passed him through a small hole in the door. Hearing no sound in the house he determined to make his escape, and with a large stone which he had worked loose in the wall battered the door down. His relatives were no where to be seen, and with the money which he found in one of the drawers he came to Pittsburg. By a previous imprisonment he says he was forced to make a will in favor of his step-daughter, and on the day preceding his incarceration the neighbors were informed that the old man was going to Michigan. The Murder of an Italian. Pittsburg, Feb. 26. A New Castle, Pa., special says : This morning at 1 o clock, while Sabaltino Cialetta, an Italian, was filling a cart with limestone at the Rosena furnace, an unknown man crawled up behind him and shot him in the back, com pletely riddling his body with buckshot. The report alarmed the other employes, who rushed at once to Uialetta s assist ance, but beiore tney reacned nim me was extinct, and the murderer bad lied. Cialetta was very unpopular with a number of his countrymen employed at the furnace, and it is supposed he was mur dered by one ol tnem. The "Oil Scouts" Organising. Pittsburg, Feb. 26. A Thorn Creek, Pa., special says: The oil field scouts, who furnish pointers on new developments, have organised what is known as "The Scouts' club," for the purpose of controll ing the oil market tor tneir own benent. Everv member is sworn to abide by orders agreed to by the majority of the club, and one ot the most important rules provides that no advices be sent out until a conference is held and a plan of operation is agreed upon. This may be to withhold information, "condemn a well," or report it other than the indications suggest. The Conso Conference. Washington, Feb. 26. Tne House cemmittee on foreign ailairs was in session four hours today considering the participation of this government in the Congo conference. The commltee meets tomorrow to decide upon the nature of the report, if any, which should accompany the resolutions, that if any report be adopted it will bo brief and will deal kindly with the administration, winie distinctly averring that participation in the conference was unfortunate, because it weakened the force-of the Monroe doctrine. He Will He Looked After. Nkw York, Feb. 26. It was said at the custom-house today that Captain Brackett, the recently deposed special agent, had been indicted by the United States grand jury. The specific charge on which tne beliet is based relates to tne loan of $250 which the captain obtained ot tne agent of an importing house and did not return until after the investigation into the affairs of his office began. A Kentucky Desperado. Louisville, Feb. 26. The examining trial of R. M. McBowling, who killed Of ficer Gill and abducted Miss Scott, began at Mt. Sterling today. Two attempts were made by tiiirs brothers to snoot Mo-Bowling, but were prevented by officers. There is much uneasiness, as McBowling's friends, it is rumored, will burn the city and rescue him. Mr. Sullivan is Still With Vs. Chicago, Feb. 26. In the preliminary hearing of Sullivan and O'Brien for perjury, committed in the trial of Mackin and others for election frauds, O'Brien was discharged on motion of the district attorney, the evidence not being sufficient to hold him. Sullivan and the other accused parties were held for further hearing. ' The Schuylkill Cal Supply. Philadelphia, Feb. 26. The coal op erators along the line of the Philadelphia and Reading railroad have been officially informed of the quota for the month of February to be filled today, and all shipments of coal therefor will be discontinued. It has been arranged that all colliers in the Schuylkill region shall work on three-quarter time during the month of March. Boasting a Socialist. New York, Feb. 26. Judge Wilde to day gave his decision in the case of Juatice Schwab, the notorious Socialist. There were two charges against the prisoner, the first for inciting a riot at a Socialist's meeting about a month ago, and the other for resisting the police who tried to arrest him. Schwab was held for trial on both charges in $2500 bail. ' In the Libel Bnsiness. New Yokk, Feb. 26. On February 10, Cyrus W. Field sued for libel Henry J.&boucher, editor ot .London Truth, and the publisher of that journal. Today a suit for libel on Field was served on Oakey Hall, the London agent of the New York Herald, and another writ issued against James Gordon Bennett, proprietor of the same journal. The Peach Crop Killed as Usual. Lawrknce. Kas.. Feb. 26. From re ports received bvthe Horticultural society the entire peach crop of Kansas will be a failure, with the probability ot the deatn of the young orchards. Applesan.l strawberries are reported all right, but blackberries and small berries generally are badly damaged by the severe cold. Gone to the Wall. Pittsbcrg, Feb. 26. Executions aggre gating $45,200 were issued today against IS. r . Kanerty & Co., coal operators, and their extensive property attached. An extension was granted the firm sometime ago, but it appears some of the creditors became dissatisfied and ordered aforeclosure- Connecticut lay.-New Orleans. Feb. 20. The event of the exposition was Connecticut day, and the formal restoration to its original owners of a tattered battle-flag, captured by the Ninth Connecticut regiment from the Third Mississippi at Pass Christian, Miss., in 1862. One Universal Shout for Grant. St. Paul. Mix.k.. Feb. 26. The Senate this morning, with two dissenting voices, passed a concurrent resolution relative to the retirement of General Grant, which passed the House yesterday. They All Do It. Tacoma, W. T., Feb. 26. T. S. Wilson, president, and C. B. Wilfly, cashier, of the Tacoma Savings bank, which failed a few days ago, were arreBted this sf ter-noon, charged with embezzlement. Gone Up in moke. Bloomincjtos, III., Feb. 26. Tho Pan-tagraph's Pontiac, 111., special says: The M. E. church burned last night. Loss $25,000, insurance $-5000, . PRELIMINARY FIREWORKS JUST BEFORE THE-INAUGURATION. Total Destruction of the National Theater in Washington This Moraine; A Terrible Fire Narrow Ks-eape of Other Buildings. Washington, Feb. 271 :40 a. m. The National theater was discovered on fire at 1 :30 and is now burning fiercely, lighting np all the central and western portions of the city. The fire had gained considerable headway before it was discovered. It evidently started in the rear of the stage and first was observed by two police officers as it burst through the roof, just over the center of the stage. They aroused the engineer of the theater, who was asleep in the second story of the building. So rapidly had the flames spread that they were compelled to put a ladder to his window and he only escaped in his night-clothes. . The fire department was soon on the scene, but within ten minutes from the time the fire was discovered, and before anything could be done to check it, the whole interior of the theater was a body of flame. All the scenery and properties, the wardrobe of the company playing at the theater this week (the AVallack theater company), books, etc., of the house, which were in the box office, have been destroyed . Only four walls of the theater building are now standing, and the flames have spread to the rear of the Harris house adjoining. The guests of this hotel hastily left for safer quarters. The origin of the fire is unknown. Last evening's performance closed before 11 o'clock. 2:20 a.m. At this writing the fire is under control and will be confined to the theater building and one small building adjoining, occupied as a cheap restaurant, and several small buildings on the lot in the rear of the theater, between it and the back of the Ebbitt house. The wall and roof of the Harris house, adjoining the theater, are pretty badly damaged and only the most strenuous exertions on the part of the firemen prevented the whole building from destruction. The theater building ;was owned by W. W. Rapley, who also managed the theater. He estimated the value of the building at $100,000, and furniture, scen ery and properties at $50,000, and says his insurance is about $40,000. The value of the wardrobe of the company is not known. The saloon and billiard-room in the theater building occupied by Miller & Jones was completely destroyed, witn the most of its contents. - The proprietors estimate their loss at about $20,000, but are unable to say what portion of this sum is covered by insur ance. One building in the rear of the theater, occupied as a store wareroom, was destroyed, with contents. - The value of this building is unknown, but the stock is valued at $5000; no insurance. The theater building was of. brick and was two stories high in front and four stories in the rear. It had a frontage of 83 feet and depth of 169 feet. Mt. Vernon Km, Special to the Ohio State JoumaL Mt. Vernon, O., Feb. 26. The grand jury has been in session since Tuesday and will probably not rise before a week. This term ot court gives promise of being a heavy one in criminal matters. Sheriff Beach today arrested Cal Hscard on a warrant sworn out by John Peoples, charg ing mm-with petit larceny. ' lie was taken before the justice s court and gave bond lor his appearance tomorrow at 10 o'clook a. m. Mrs. Jane Hill, an aged and respected lady, met with a serious accident last night. While sitting reading the plastering fell from the ceiling above her and inflicted injuries from which sue will die. Will Cheney, who was married here to Miss Lydia Lauderbaugh last summer, died today at the residence ol his . lather-in-law. He was in perfect health vesterdav. but from the effects of a ride he was taken last night with congestion ot the lungs, ot which he died at 3 o'clock today, y A Long Tramp. . New York, Feb. 26. Pedestrian Nore- mac tomcrht finished his task of walking one hundred days and making 5100 miles. BREVITIES. A fire at Willimantic, Conn., Thursday, destroyed the Cranston block. Loss $15,000. Frank Steele and Joe Ritchie were drowned at Chattanooga, Tenn., while attempting to cross Ulucamauga creek. John Green, of either St. Fanl, Minn., or Sedalia, Mo., committed suicide at St. Peter, Mo., Thursday, by shooting himself. A fire broke out in the general store of B. B. Copeland & Son, at Irwin, Pa., Thursday, destroying that with several other buildings. The loss will reach $15,000. Dr. Joseph H. D. Rodgers, a leading physician in southern Indiana, died Thursday morning at Madisen. The deeeased raised a company of volunteers, lod them to Texas and participated in the Texan war for inde pendence. HOCKING VALLEY THOUBLKS Investigated by the Legislature Colonel W. P. Kend Leads Off With the Testl. mony General Notes. - The joint committee of the General Assembly to investigate the troubles in connection with the Hocking Valley strike continued their session last evening after the resolutions were offered in both houses calling for more definite instructions as to the scope of the investigation or the limit of their powers. There is great difficulty in getting at the matter from a leeal or official standpoint. The first difficulty is as to the beginning, but it is not likely that the committee will go back further than a vear except to get a history of the organization and manipula tions of the railroad and coai corporations and the causes at different times of the labor troubles. The events of the past vear will, however, be con sidered. Th6 members of the committee found the demoralization so great in the House yesterday afternoon that they could get no satisfaction as to lnstruc-linns. It is thought that after the com mittee once gets its bearings in the big job that it has undertaken, that the doors will be thrown open to the press, as everything that is done gets out any way and the star chamber business is being generally condemned. There are very manv witnesses in the city ready to tike the stand, among them being i. a. nyseii, vice presiaeui. oi iud miuua State association: Christopher Evans, president of the Hocking Valley district ; Thomas Lawson, New Straitaville ; 11. B. Bodev. Carbon Hill: Joseph Devault, Carbon Hill; R. H. Miller, Shawnee; James Scott, Buchtel; J. H. Donley, Orbiston: James Scott and Alexander InVinann Xplftonville. Tim first witness was Colonel W. P. Rend, who took the stand at 5 o'clock ftprnoon. after the prelimi nnrien hail hpifn disposed of. and by his hold statements and exposition of the great contest in the valley be came near knocking the investigators out on the first round. He goes into the history of the union, the course the operators have pursued in fostering it, the condition of the milrnad mmnanv and tho relations of these different organizations to each other in an olnhnrfltR manner. He SPCaks of all hands, of oppression and depression, of the contests and their results with which the public is familiar. Judging' from the way the investigation starts out everything connected with the Hocking valley enterprises is to be investigated and the result will be awaited with considerable interest. National Guard Pay Day. The members of the National Guard who have been on duty in the Hocking vallev will be paid Saturday. To some of the men this will be joyful news, as their service there stopped revenue from other sources and they have felt the need of the money. Uompany a, or vus cuy, wm draw$l00. Today's Weather. Indications for the Ohio Valley and Tanneuee Slightly warmer, lair weather, south to west . winds. Lower Lake Local anows fallowed by lair weather, winds generally south to west, alight rise In temperature In east portion and Dearly stationary temperature in west portion. , Upper Mississippi Valley-Fair weather, slightly warmer, southerly winds. Hisiouri Valley Fair weather, warmer In south ern portions, stationary temperature in northern portions, south to west winds. THE RAILROADS. Bonds Consolidated. Madison. Wis.. Feb. 26. Articles of association were filed at the Department oi oiate yesieraay consolidating the Canada, La Crosse and Southwestern, and La Crosse and Southwestern railway nnder the title of the former. The proposed line is to start at some point on Lake Sn- Eerior in Michigan, extend southwest to a Crosse, and thence through Heaper and Charles City, Io., to some point on the" It is said a good portion of the right of way has been secured in Iowa. Local and General. The troubles arising from the snow blockade are gradually being overcome. Passenger Agent Hunter went to West- " erville yesterday to secure a large party for Kansas. W. H. Conn, local ticket eeent of the Ohio and West Virginia railroad at Mid-dleport, is in the city. Robert M. Smith, agent for the Chicago. Burlington and Ouincv at this point, haa gone to Cincinnati for a day or two. F. M. Caldwell, district passenger agent of the Panhandle, returned vesterdav from a brief visit to the Ohio river point. J. A. Webb, nasseneer agent of the Chicago, Milwaukee and Sc. Paul railroad, returned yesterday from an extended trio in the Northwest Stephen H. Mills, traveling passenger agent of the Northern Pacific railroad, . was in the city yesterday looking after the interests of his company. The Baltimore and Ohio express has just completed a change in their office. which makes it one of the best arranged express offices in the city. Charles Watts, division superintendent of the Panhandle at Logansport, and B. T. McCabe, division freight agent at Chicago, were in the city yesterday. Charles Traveer. traveling land agent of the Chicago and Northwestern railroad, passed through the city en route for Springfield and points South. Traveling Agent George W. Pangborn. of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe railroad, has removed his olKce from Meadville, Pa., to Columbus. Fred. Blankner, ir.. has resigned his position with the Door, Sash and Lumber Company and accepted a position with the Baltimore and Ohio Company. It is rumored that Receiver McLean, of the Cincinnati and Eastern, has decided to appoint Conductor John Breen, of the little Miami railroad, superintendent of that road. T.n. Tl.. l H,.O.t..l... ..J Cincinnati Midland, left vesterday for a little pleasure trip East He will spend some time in Philadelphia and Westchester, Pa. George Tolman, traveling passenger agent of the Indiana, Bleomington and Western railroad, was in the city v ester-- day. Mr. Tolman carries a "cut-rate" knife with a blade like a cavalry sword. The Baltimore and Ohio Company has decided to build a passenger depot at Pittsburg, and to otherwise improve its terminal facilities at that point The improvements are expected to cost $500,000. The Columbus. Hocking Valley and To ledo railroad is carrying from 425 to 450 cars of coal a day and business still on the increase. The amount hauled yesterday and day before was 900 cars 450 each day. A long freight train was stretched across High street yesterday, which not only stopped travel on the street, but also blockaded the approaches to the depot Two hacks loaded with passengers for outgoing trains were detained fully 7 minutes, and barely reached the depot in time to make a hurried connection with the trains. The train was unnecessarily long, as it extended from the tracks in the rear of the east baggage-room to the Exchange hotel. The Pennsylvania people have intro duced a new and very accommodating feature on their limited express trains. The conductor of each of the limited trains is supplied with a package of large envelopes. They were invented by an employe of the company, and are weight-. ed with lead, so that they may be tossed from a moving tran to a station agent by EaaseDgera who wish to forward telegrams efore the train reaches its next stopping place. On the envelopes are printed directions for the telegraph operator to forward the dispatch at once. FOUR ROUNDS TO DECIDE IT. A Glove Contest with Robert Parrel A r- ranged for Nest Month. Themes Hammond of Akron, accompa nied by his manager, Augustus Kagle of the same place, has been in the city for the past two days, trying to arrange a meeting with Bob Barrel in a glove con test for next month. Preliminaries were settled yesterday and a mill arranged for some date between -Marcn n ano io. A hall has not been secured, bnt Mr. Farrel is to engage one and netify Hammond of the place and date. The contest is to be for "scientific points," four rounds. Police Gazette rules, the net receipts for the evening to go to the winner. Ham mond formerly lived at riusuurg ana New Castle, Pa., and still earlier, under the cognomen of "the Richmond champion," icught a match with Charles Doherty of Richmond, Va., which laeted 2 hours and 10 minutes, Hammond winning, although entering the ring with a broken hand. He claims to have fought in seventeen fights in England and America and to have won in all but one. Hammond is a well put np man, and seems to be a good match for Farrell in every way. He left for Akron to go into training. A Valuable Present. Dr. Alexander Neil received from Representative . Greiner yesterday a small wooden ink-stand, which is possessed of peculiar value as a souvenir. It is the one car ried by Lieutenant General Fhil. Sberidan while engaged in the Shenendoah valley in 1864, and was accompanied by a letter s'ating that he also carried it while a captain of the Third infantry in Oregon. Captain Greiner received it from J. Sheridan, a member of his company, and said as Dr. Neil was an ardent admirer and had served under the general he took pleasure in translerring the memento to him. A Rink at Canal Winchester. Quite a party of young men went to Canal Winchester last night to witness the opening of the rink just completed at that place by Messrs. Chaney and Speaks. The managers have rented the largn foundry which was bmlt there some year ago and which has fallen into disuse, and have put down a maple floor covering bn whole interior, making one of the largest rinks in the slate in a town of that size. The opening was a splendid success. Not a StunVd Club. Allen O. Myers has a cane that is quila remarkable. It was made by a convict at the penitentiary from a hoop-pole. Ou the cane are the names of the "prison committee" and there are other name, and figures on the stick, all rn"in8 rom. the handle to the ferrule end. There am 412 letter, on the wood. The workon (lh cane represents many hours of labor and much skill on the part of the prisoner,